The Church Quotes
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!
It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau
I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.
I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.
Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.
Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?
Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.
The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.
Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.
A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.
The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.
Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church.